THE POWDER KEG CALLED “TURKEY”

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 3 February 2018

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

With every passing day, it becomes more obvious that Turkey is hellbent on causing a major conflagration in the Eastern Mediterranean.Now almost daily, the world is treated to yet another megalomaniac outburst by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist autocrat who’s pushing his country down the slippery path of theocratic dictatorship...Read more

GREECE AND “MACEDONIA”

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 22 January 2018

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

Ever since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Greece has been entangled in the so-called “name issue” a.k.a the “Macedonian issue” a.k.a. the “Skopjan issue.” This “issue” revolves around the constitutional name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; in a unilateral move, the “Skopjans” declared their independent state “Republic of Macedonia” as soon as Tito’s construct disintegrated in 1991. Greece took offense over this purely Greek name being “highjacked” by the former next-door communists – and, following that, the Balkans were never the same...Read more

GREECE, TURKEY, AEGEAN

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 7 January 2018.

SUMMARY: Turkey’s neo-Ottoman posture and president Erdogan’s pugnacious stance continue to feed the Greek-Turkish crisis. Erdogan’s recent visit to Greece confirmed the Turkish president’s aggressive tactics and demands for renegotiating the Lausanne Treaty. Turkey’s provocations in the Aegean continue unabated and Ankara exploits illegal alien flows from its shores to Greece as a weapon to bully and blackmail Athens. Turkish senior government officials make inflammatory statements about the use of force to reclaim purported “Turkish” islands and islets in the Aegean and Turkey pursues the tactic of “hot incidents” to promote its claims upon Greece. With the European Union unable to provide any true relief or opposition to Turkey’s expansionist tendencies, Greece’s only realistic hope for ensuring a peaceful balance in the Aegean is security cooperation with the United States...Read more

QUO VADIS EUROPEAN SECURITY?

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 4 January 2018

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

“Quo Vadis” or “Where are You Going European Security” is the question because the real threat to European security is the lack of solidarity among Europeans. Europeans are the biggest threat to European Security. This is not a new observation. Europe has a history as a continent at war. When there hasn’t been war there have been periods, even long periods, of non-war but in these there has been little mood that there is true long lasting peace. During these there have stability that has enabled economic development. But the trends and historical cycles of integration and fragmentation are becoming shorter endangering the current state of non war. .. Read more

THE GREEK LION FROM JUDEA COLONEL MORDECHAI FRIZIS

In Memory of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Great Traveler, Writer, World War II Resistance Fighter and Philhellene. Antio Filedem:"The World and Greece is an orphan without you."

Nickolaos Mavromates(RIEAS Research Associate and Historian based in USA)

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 January 2018

Reading an article from Haaretz about the Jewish minority of Finland and their role of defending their frozen land against the Communist hordes of the Soviet Union, I took the initiative to put in writing a similar piece but for a different country and with a different enemy in mind, and lastly with a less happy ending. It is a story of a Greek lion equal to Achilles and Spartan king Leonidas but with Hebrew Romaniote roots that could be traced from the annals of Jewish Greek History. Someone might ask how this is possible. Well let me begin the story of this Greek hero that could equally belong to the pantheon of Greek champion's of Hellenism...Read more

ENTROPY TIME REDUX

Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 23 December 2017

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Re-search Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS).

On December 22 a powerful bomb exploded outside the Athens Court of Appeals. The blast disintegrated the glass façade of the building and caused damage to surrounding apartment buildings. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Police believe the bomb was the handiwork of the so-called Group of People’s Fighters, one the dozens of such obscure terrorist cells populating Greece’s dark underbelly...Read more